RTA 316 Study Guide - Final Guide: Transmedia Storytelling, News5, Jean Louis
17 Oct 2018
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It happens in real life; it happens to stigmatized people. We hope that people will think that we are very smart when we use a long word. But being turned into an object is a real event; and the pornographic object is a particular kind of object. And red or purple marks the spot where he"s supposed to get you. (dworkin) The preservation of normative values via predictable representation (i. e. the male gaze , female objectification leading to systemic disempowerment) The death drive: unconscious desires to return to our constituent elements. Love/sex/life drive: base instincts, reproduce, consume, survive. Women as peripheral rather than a driving force in the plot. The commonality of female nudity display implies insubordination. Objectification as a source of pleasure (for both the looker and the looked-at) Men as the dominant group have been the looker (the subjects; women the objects) Film is reflection of its cultural context.
